Most on the left participated in the initiative, while some dissenters argued that it will only add fuel to the fire.

The right is critical of the initiative, which it believes will be counterproductive.

“The United States is experiencing a historic press freedom crisis... at least 75 journalists have been harassed or attacked since the beginning of last year and 37 have been arrested, many of them while covering demonstrations, according to the US Press Freedom Tracker. Trump did not cause these problems. But instead of using his platform to rally the American public in support of the First Amendment, Trump's hostile rhetoric is fueling divisions.”

“Criticizing the news media — for underplaying or overplaying stories, for getting something wrong — is entirely right. News reporters and editors are human, and make mistakes. Correcting them is core to our job. But insisting that truths you don’t like are ‘fake news’ is dangerous to the lifeblood of democracy. And calling journalists the ‘enemy of the people’ is dangerous, period.”

“Journalists need to report the facts in an unbiased manner... allowing us to make decisions – and not the journalists - on how to interpret the information.” Instead, mainstream media “exaggerate every action and word of President Trump, and most often report it in the most negative way possible. As such, much of the country is numb to their cries of collusion, meddling, impeachment, et al. Should the media grab on to a true story, it is doubtful that we will believe them.”

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“That so many news outlets could be duped into participating in what is obviously a political stunt is not only disappointing but disturbing. It suggests their real agenda isn't informing people, even in their editorials, but bending the news to suit a leftist political agenda. The irony, of course, is that in participating... the media are proving what Trump says is true. They are biased.”